{"id":3337,"date":"2010-07-15T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=3337"},"modified":"2010-07-15T02:11:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T07:11:36","slug":"talking-with-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2010\/07\/15\/talking-with-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking with God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">A Devotional By Brother Shepherd<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-40616\" title=\"cellphone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cellphone-185x200.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"180\" \/>Not to long ago I got a new cell phone which has a connecting ear piece and you can hear and talk with your hands free. These are great safety features but, as with all technology it has to be set up properly before it will work. I spent some time going over the instructions before I got the right connection and I am able to use it.<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking about talking with God and how we have to have the right connection before that\u2019s possible. I thought what connection do we need to be able to talk to God? The first one I came up with is: we have to believe in God. Secondly we can only go to God through Jesus Christ. He is our connection.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In Matthew 6:9-13, Jesus teaches His disciples to pray and we call it the Lord\u2019s Prayer and the very last verse reads, \u201cAnd lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. This last verse adds an exclamation of what our attitude should be toward God.<\/p>\n<p>On this cell phone I\u2019m using, if I hadn\u2019t had the right connection it wouldn\u2019t work. In John 14:6 it reads, \u201cJesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.\u201d The statement for today is to make sure that you have the right connection.<\/p>\n<p>This is Brother Shep asking you to think about this.<\/p>\n<p>PS: Matthew 28:18-20<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are growing, you are going\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Devotional By Brother Shepherd Not to long ago I got a new cell phone which has a connecting ear piece and you can hear and talk with your hands free. These are great safety features but, as with all technology it has to be set up properly before it will work. I spent some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[3721,3856,3857,3858,3283,3758],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-RP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3338,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions\/3338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}